Peoples lives to a minimum while preparing for a worst case scenario. The original law was enacted after the 2009 influenza outbreak. The update would allow the government to declare a state of emergency over this latest health issue. Using the proposed revision, the government would have the authority to ban events, to limit the use of large venues like theaters, and to firmly advise people to stay at home. The government hopes to pass the Amendment Bill on friday. The Prime Minister also said the government wants to prevent negative information about japan from spreading abroad. Hes considering asking experts to help dispel any rumors. Abe stressed a number of infected people in japan excluding cases from a virushit cruise ship is considerably lower than some european countries. Border barrier. Japans government is strengthening its border controls from two neighboring countries in attempt to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. Flights arriving from china and south korea can now only land at two airports near tokyo and osaka. Asking all travellers from the two countries to stay at home or other private accommodations at their own expense for two weeks upon arrival in japan. Passengers are asked to use private or rental cars when leaving the airport instead of public transportation. The movement hasnt had a smooth roll out. They didnt know what they were doing inside. They gave me some paperwork to write down, but they couldnt really assist me what to put down. Travellers are also being asked to inform officials where they will be staying and how they plan to get around. The measures are expected to remain in effect until the end of this month. The Italian Government says the number of fatalities from the coronavirus surged by 133 on sunday to 366. This was the first time fatalities exceeded 100 in the country. The number of confirmed infection cases increased by almost 1,500 to 7,375. Alys gornment started imposing restrictions on movement in the countrys northern regions on sunday. Theyre banning people from entering and leaving lombardi and surrounding areas until april 3rd. Milan d venice remain off limits except for emergency work. The Italian Airline said it will suspend all International Flights to and from milan and redu the number of its domestic flights. So local media say its not clear how people are being restricted from traveling. As infections have been spreading around the world, nhk calculates there have been nearly 27,000 cases confirmed outside Mainland China and japan in about 100 countries and territories. More than 670 people have died. North korea say they havent confirmed any cases. Diplomats were released and left monday on a special flight. The flight arrived. Diplomats spoke about the situation in the north. Business as normal but you can see, i mentioned, that everybody wears the masks like you do. But everybody does that. And there is a certain tension in the city and all over the country because people are aware of the coronavirus. To fend off the virus, pyongyang has quarantined more than 380 foreign nationals. The quarantine was partly lufted this month and the special flight was arranged for those who wanted to leave. North koreas Ruling Party Newspaper reported on monday the country has quarantined nearly 10,000 people so far. It says about 40 of them have already been released. Those released include diplomats and their families in pyongyang. And in china Authorities Say there were 40 new confirmed infections on sunday making for the Third Straight day with totals below 100. Most of the new cases are still coming from Hubei Province where residents lob criticismt officials. A video has become a flash point for that anger. In it, the vice premier delivered products and workers were heard yelling the whole thing was staged. Meanwhile, Chinese State run media says the government is showing its commitment to the global fight against the virus including through a 20 million donation to the w. H. O. It says the money will help developing countries with vulnerable Public Health systems. Now people across japan are coming up with new ways to cope with school closures. Nhk world keichi takamura found how one family is making it work. Reporter they started going to school last week. Translator i cant do anything. Its so boring. Reporter she is trying to keep them at home as much as possible. The reason has just as much to do with social stigma than out of fear of the coronavirus. Translator im afraid of what people might say if im out with my children. It would be very hard for me to tolerate. Reporter japans government made the abrupt decision late last month to ask schools to close to protect schools from the coronavirus. She is doing what she can to keep her kids at peace. Shes part of a group for mothers. After schools were shut down, she started an online gymnastics program. It also gives parents a break. Translator private lessons were cancelled and the Childrens Center closed, so its very refreshing. Reporter but all of that time indoors can be stressful. Translator mom, i cant solve this question. Reporter she says she is always with her children and has no time for herself. Translator honestly im quite tired and its just been a week. Reporter some parents may feel the same. Translator both parents and children get irritated when stress increases. It could lead to physical abuse. I urge parents to feel free to ask for help. Reporter schools across japan are expected to stay closed for at least one more week. Its not clear how long it could continue or just how effective it is in containing the spread of the virus. For now, she will continue to keep her kids inside and come up with ways to keep them busy. Keiichi takamura, nhk world. The number of confirmed cases in japan has reached almost 500. The tally does not include about 700 people from the diamond princess cre princess cruise ship. 16 people have died including 7 from the u. S. Operated cruise ship that was quarantined near tokyo for over two weeks. More than 100 infections have been confirmed in hokkaido. Dozens of cases have been reported reported in aichi, tokyo, and osaka. Health Officials Say about 60 patients are in serious condition. They say over 300 people have recovered and have been released from the hospital. Japans Baseball League has decided to postpone the playing season whichas to get underway next week. Translator weve decided to postpone the opening gam of the baseball season. We will continue to consult with experts with the aim of starting the season before the end of april at the latest. The nippon professiol Baseball League on monday discussed measures to deal with the coronavirus outbreak. The delayed start will be the first since 2011 when japan was hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunami. The decision was provided by the professional baseball and Soccer Leagues. The Soccer League plans to restart games on march 18th. The soccer season began last month and ran for only three days before being suspended. At a time when the new coronavirus is causing short annals of face masks, a local politician in central japan made over 80,000 selling thousands of masks through online auctions. Translator i sincerely apologize for what i have done. Hiroyuki morota said putting the masks up for auction during a time of crisis was insensitive. He auctioned boxes of masks 89 times making a total revenue of about 86,500. The assemblyman explained that the masks had been sitting on the shelf for a few years at a Trading Company he runs and stress that they were not being resold. He plans to donate the auction revenue to a worth while cause and intends to continue serving in the assembly. After any natural disaster, the Recovery Process involves sharing the Lessons Learned in the hope of saving lives in the future. Thats become an Important Mission for one Elementary School in an area that was devastated by the march 2011 earthquake and tsunami. A warning, some viewers may find images in this report disturbing. Reporter the Tsunami Memorial Museum opened in september 2019. These students from a local Elementary School arrived on a mission, to learn more about a day they were too young to remember. Translator i thought it was scary and saw how dangerous it was. Translator i found out more about that terrible thing. Reporter the principal had been looking for ways to teach children about the tsunami. She lost both her parents in the disaster. Kono was concerned about how to share the pain of the past with such young children, but she realized they should understand more about the horror of what happened nine years ago. Translator if we dont do anything, people wont be able to pass on the memories of the disaster. I want to make sure we leave our mark to show what we went through. Reporter the sixth graders who were only three years old at the time of the tsunami received an assignment, to prepare presentations combining what they learned with their own experiences. Translator you should put in a bit of what you did or saw when you had to evacuate. Translator i ran away with my sister. My big brother ran away first. Translator my mom and dad came here, and then the whole family escaped together. Reporter they lived in Public Housing for a long time. For a long time she did not want to talk about the disaster. For about a year after the disaster, she would be terrified every time she heard an earthquake alert. Reporter but the arrival of a little sister gave her a new perspective. Translator now i want to tell my sister how important it is to protect herself. Reporter in her presentation, kanon spoke of what she learned through the assign skpmt the determination she gained. Translator i realized that after the disaster, people from various areas came to help. I would like to do what i can if other prefectures are hit by natural disasters. Reporter now with her assignment completed kanon wants to pass on what shes learned about march 2011. Its a task thats becoming increasingly important as communities strive to ensure future generations know what to do should disaster strike again. Temperatures were in the upper teens for us today. John joins us with a look at conditions. We are talking about the warm weather. Its going to stick around as we go through the rest of the week. Were going to see more in erm thes of the rain coming up on tuesday. Then well see the mid to upper teens for tokyo as we go through the rest of the week. If youre dealing with the pollen, its going to be an issue for the second half of this week. Be prepared for that. We have one low pressure system that was responsible for the rain on sunday moving out of the area monday. We have a dry. Warm. But were going to be dealing with another band of rain coming in from the west. We have a low coming out of china moving across the Western Areas of japan but also bringing rain into south korea as we go throughout the day tuesday. Now, once this system rolls through, i think well be dealing with a dry period for the rt of the week. We will be talking about temperatures that are still in the teens, and were looking at overnight lows tonight falling into the Single Digits in some locations. Its going to be on the warm side. The only place were talking about Colder Weather pattern later in the week is sapporo. Look at this, tokyo, osaka, fukuoka all looking at rain coming up on tuesday. Morning hours towards the west in fukuoka and later on into the day in places like tokyo, further to the east. 18 for the high on wednesday in tokyo, 17 on friday. So, bouncing a little bit in the mid to upper teens, but still on the warm side as you go through the week. I mentioned the low moving across japan is bringing showers back toward the eastern areas of china. Well be dealing with clouds in shanghai. So, well see somehowers lingering as we go through the day. Down toward australia seeing showers along the eastern and Northern Areas of the country here. That wet pattern will continue. Elsewhere back toward the west, relatively dry. Big contrast where the rain was constantly impacting the area. Were going to be seeing much of a dryer pattern coming up on tuesday. Were looking at some wet weather in sidney. Across north america we have this pretty developing low pressure system moving through the Central Plains here. As it continues to lift toward the north and east were talking about warm weather. Be on the look out for that, maybe Stormy Weather possible along with this particular system. 23 in oklahoma city, 25 in houston, d. C. With 22 with sunny skies coming up on monday. Thats a look at your forecast. I hope you have a good day wherever you are. With the latest developments on the business and financial fronts is Ramin Mellegard up next. Nikkei closed below 20,000 for the First Time Since january of last year. Investors got out of stocks and into the safe haven yen amid the turmoil triggered by the coronavirus. Hit the 101 yen level for the first time in over three years. Nikkei finished at 1,900,698, down 5. 1 from friday. The range of shares were lower. Many people in Tokyo Express concern about the sharp downturn. Im surprised to see the declines across the board. Whats even worse is Economic Activity has almost stopped. That spells problem. Translator i dont think sales prices will plunge as much as during a global crisis, but its hard to predict what the markets will do. The benchmark in sidney nose dived more than 7 . Manila dropped 6 . Hong kong were down more than 4 . The head of japans biggest business lobby has voiced concern over the stock market plunge and the shop rise of the yen. Translator we have seen a great deal of damage in many sectors including transportation, tourism, and small business. Both the public and the private sectors should Work Together to address the problems stemming from the coronavirus outbreak. Senior officials from the finance ministry and the bank of japan and the Financial Services agency held an emergency meeting to discuss the issue. Translator the market has been moving nervously. We will take appropriate steps in line with the g7 and g20 agreements if needed. He will keep a close eye on market movements. He says excessive market volatility isnt good for the real economy. We talked to an expert about the tokyo stock markets plunge on monday. He say there are political reasons besides economic ones. The coronavus spreads in the United States and also the super tuesday, mr. Biden gaining the momentum which is also the strike to President Trump. The investor believes the reelection of President Trump will be in favor for the stock market, but it is getting more riskier a scenario at this point in time. Thats how the u. S. President ial election is impacting to even the japanese stock market. And opec started a price war last weekend. Significant sharp drop in oil prices. That is also creating the almost a fear to the economy of the future. He says the coronavirus will have a negative impact on japans economy for the next six to nine months. But he thin the market will entually recover. While the stock market can be, you know, even lower and the International Investor will sell more japanese equity, but we do it back in japan will be buying more japanese equities. The bank of japan has the etf problem which is 6 trillion japanese yen per year, will be good enough to down size prediction. Also Japanese Companies are eager to buy back their shares at the lower point of the stock prices. And that also is falling faster over the japanese equity. If the coronavirus doesnt peak out sometime soon, stock price will stay below 20,000 in nikkei 225 but the down side will be limited. He says although the impact of the coronavirus will gradually weaken, investors need to keep a close eye on the outbreak in the meantime. We believe, strongly believe, the fundamental issues that we need to focus on is the Coronavirus Impact which has been already peaked out in china. And now its spreading outf the world, but we believe it will be peaking out. So, the daily monitor on the coronavirus new patient or new cases, that is the most important indicator we have to watch. Japans gdp for the final quarter of 2019 has been revised downward. Officials say the change was mainly due to lower Capital Expenditures. The Cabinet Office says the gdp shrank an analyzed 7. 1 in real term. The figure announced in february was contracture of 6. 3 . The period coincided with the consumption tax hike. The revision puts the number close to the minus 7. 4 figure that followed the previous tax increase in 2014. Lower Capital Expenditure was changed from minus 3. 7 to minus 6 . Personal consumption was minus 2. 8 . Businesses in japan are planning to forge ahead with march shareholder meetings despite coronavirus worries. But firms will be taking extra precautions to ensure the safety of participants. Food makers kagome will decline entry to anyone with a reading of 37. 5 degree celsius or more. Skylark holdings plans to live stream its meeting. The company is asking elderly members and those with preexisting Health Conditions to cast their votes online. Executives say its hard to tell how the operation will unfold. Theyre also worried that changing the schedule would affect shareholders rights to receive dividends. Now lets get a check on the markets. And thats fears over the coronavirus continued to rise. Stock markets in europe and asia continue to tumble. These are moves not seen since the global unanswered crisis in 2008. Of italyser population under conme
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